Hungary’s Consul Leaves Delta for Clayton State Post

John Parkerson discusses his role as honorary consul in promoting business ties between Georgia and Hungary. CLICK FOR VIDEO

Hungary’s honorary consul in Atlanta left Delta Air Lines Inc. at the end of August to take a new director of international programs post at Clayton State University.

John Parkerson, who represents the eastern European country in the Carolinas, Georgia and Tennessee, was a general attorney for Delta for 15 years.

His new responsibilities at the Morrow university include fundraising for international initiatives, expanding study abroad programs, working with foreign universities on faculty and student exchanges and representing the university at local and global functions.

Mr. Parkerson also teaches one international business law course a year in Clayton State’s MBA program and is a former chair of the international transactions board of the Atlanta Bar Association.

Apart from the university, Mr. Parkerson is remaining as honorary consul and as a partner at business law firm FSB Corporate Counsel in Atlanta.

 

Georgia-based CSM Subsidiary Names New President and CEO

H.C. Brill Co. Inc., a Georgia-based subsidiary of Dutch bakery products manufacturer CSM, has named Bret Weaver its new president and CEO.

Mr. Weaver held various leadership positions at CSM North America, including vice president of business operations for its supply arm.  He led that company’s strategy initiatives and mergers and acquisitions activity since 2001.

H.C. Brill is an 80-year-old company based in Tucker that manufactures and supplies bakery products and ingredients for artisan and industrial bakeries throughout the country.

CSM is based in Amsterdam and is the largest supplier of bakery products worldwide.  The company generates annual sales of 2.5 billion euros and employs 8,500 people in 23 countries.

For more information, visit www.csm.nl or www.hcbrill.com.

Non-Native Speakers Invited to Gwinnett English Program

Non-native speakers looking to practice English can participate in a free program at five branches of the Gwinnett County Public Library system.

No registration is required for the “Let’s Talk!” program, a 10-week course aimed at improving speaking skills and turning passive knowledge of the English language—reading and listening—into active conversation.

The program is free.  Groups will meet from 7:30-8:30 p.m. on different days of the week depending on the branch.  Meetings are to be held at Lawrenceville and Centerville branches Mondays, Lilburn on Tuesdays, Norcross on Wednesdays and Suwannee on Thursdays.

Census reports show that 30 percent of the nearly 800,000 Gwinnett County residents speak a language other than English at home, and half of those say they don’t speak English well.

For more information, visit www.gwinnett.pl.org or call (770) 978-5154.